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Hellman and Moliere

By

Joel Henning

Updated April 26, 1999 12:01 a.m. ET

Chicago

S ome of her contemporaries hated Lillian Hellman because she was an unrepentant Communist who loved to wear mink, others because they believed that she gussied up her memoirs with lies. Still others, including a recent biographer who spent a summer in Hellman's domestic employ on Martha's Vineyard, were put off because she was nasty.